---
type: "Bill"
title: "School employees: employment: sex offenses."
description: "Existing law prohibits the employment or retainment of employment by a school district of a person convicted of a sex offense and defines the term \"sex offense\" for those purposes and for specified other provisions relating to schools and school employees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 872"
citation: "California AB 872 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["School employees: employment: sex offenses."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chau"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-16"
last_action: "2017-08-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/afe70db8-caaa-4be0-8263-0f853d0b4c3d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB872"
source_hash: "447f620fc27af49c3d873a011327bc3c00bc13358fb420c9392ac74d8b9edd54"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 872 (20172018) — School employees: employment: sex offenses.

Existing law prohibits the employment or retainment of employment by a school district of a person convicted of a sex offense and defines the term "sex offense" for those purposes and for specified other provisions relating to schools and school employees.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/16/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB872&version=20170AB87299INT)
2. **08/07/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB872&version=20170AB87297CHP)
3. **AB872** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB872)
4. **07/24/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB872&version=20170AB87298ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chau — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2017-03-02** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-04-06** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-04-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1144.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-04-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-10** Referred to Coms. on ED. and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-07** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 7). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-07-17** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2017-07-18** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-07-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2129.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-07-20** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2017-07-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2017-08-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-08-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 167, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/afe70db8-caaa-4be0-8263-0f853d0b4c3d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).